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Intensive session: New approaches to medical issues in long-term care.

Messinger-Rapport BJ, Morley JE, Thomas DR, Gammack JK

Cleveland Clinic, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.

This article, based on a series of presentations at the American Medical Directors Association, briefly highlights new advances in medical areas of interest to long-term care physicians. The areas discussed are heart failure, vitamin D, falls, new treatments for diabetes mellitus, blood pressure measurement, anemia, clinical nutrition, pressure ulcers, Clostridium difficile, insomnia, and antipsychotic therapy.

Published 11 September 2007 in J Am Med Dir Assoc, 8(7): 421-33.
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